Pin-receiving tab for garments



H. MERKEL AND 1. Buio-HER. vPIN RECEIVING TAB FOR GARMENTS.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. l5, |920.

Panted Sept. 2 8, 1920.

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y UNITED STATES HERMAN MERKEL, OF EAST ORANGE, .AND JACOB BUECHER, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY PATENT OFFICE.

PIN-RECEIVING TAB FOR GARMENTS.

T aZZfozmn. it may Concern.'

Be it known that we, HERMAN MuRKnL and flacos Busca-rau, citizens of the United States, and residents of East Orange, county of Essex, and State of New Jersey, and Newark, county. of Essex, and State of New Jersey, respectively, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pin-Receiving Tabs for Garments, of which the following is aspecification.

r vhis invention relates to an improved tab to be attached to garments and which provides means for receiving a pin, this being usually done in the attachment of hose supporters to under-waists, particularly for childrens wear.

The invention lconsists in a tab of this kind which is adapted to be supplied to the operator forV attachment` to the waist, the tab consisting of a strip and also a pin receiving member, the strip being held Yagainst movement relative to the member so that it can be easily attached to the garment.

Another advantage of the device is that the strip can be threaded or passed into a slit or eye in the pin receiving member much easier than in lforms heretofore employed, and after being so threaded, a slight manipulation of'a part of the pin receiving member holds the strip so that all parts of the strip are held in engagement with the slit in which the strip is threaded, so that the bunching or wrinlrling of the strip into one corner of the slit through which it passes is prevented, so that an oblique disposition of the pin receiving member relative to the garment is prevented.

As heretofore made there have been two serious defects in this class of goods, one being that the strip part of the tab rides up into one corner of the slit in the pin receiving member, and the other is that the threading of the material of the strip into the slit of the pin receiving member has been difficult and necessarily slow and therefore expensive, an operator taking a great deal of time threading this short strip of tape into the slit, thus vmaking a comparatively expensive step in the assembling of what is a small part of the finished garment.

Our invention therefore comprises an article of manufacture which is a tab ready for attachment to the garment, the strip of the tab being threaded into the pin receiving member with speed and ease, due to the construction, and after its insertion it is held flat in the slit so that the ends ofthe strip Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Sept` 28 1920.' Application led February 16, 1920. v

Serial N0. 359,063.

are substantially even, and an operator fastening these tabs to under-waists has no difhculty in assembling the parts and securing them together.

The invention is illustrated y'in the accompanymg drawing, in which Figure 1 is a front view of an improved tab made according to our invention, with the edge of the under garment and the upper part of the hose supporter shown in dotted outline. Fig. 2 is an edge view of the tab shown in Fig. 1, with the pin receiving member shown in section, and Fig. 3 is a perspective view with the strip of fabric placed in the slit of the pin receiving member and showing the lip of the pin receiving member in the position it occupies before it is pressed down to holdzthe strip against longitudinal or lateral movement. Fig. 1 is an enlarged section of theY device. i

In the drawing 10 indicates the bottom edge of a garment, such as a childs underwaist, and 11 the top end of the strip of a hose supporter provided with a safety pin 12 on its upper edge, the bar 13 of the pin being adapted to be received in the pin receiving member of our improved tab.

rf'he tab comprises a strip 111 of fabric, usually muslin, which is fastened, by stitching 15 or by other means, to a garment and which serves to suspend from its bottom edge a pin receiving member, which is a metal clip' bent up from sheet metal to form the tubular part 16 which receives the pin 13 and has an ear 17 provided with a slit 18 as wide as, or slightly wider than, the strip 111, a non-cutting top edge of the slit being provided by folding over the material punched out of the ear to provide for the slit against the face of the ear, as kat 19. rlhis forms a double rounded edge which does'not tear the material of the strip 14.

`We prefer to make the pin receiving member of one piece of metal, the ear 17 projecting from the tubular part 16, and closely adjacent thereto we provide a lip 20. ThisI lip, as shown in Fig. 2 in dotted outline and in Fig. 3 in full lines, is bent away on its top edge from the slit 18, preferably in a slight curve. lhen the pin receiving member is in this shape the strip 14 is easily threaded through it, since when theV end of the strip is started in from the rear side of the clip it can be done by hand and requires no threading instrument, because the front end of the strip will hit the curve on the inner face of the lip 20 and thus be fed upwardly vso that itcan be readily grasped after it is 'passed through the slit, and these short strips of fabric can be placed into the pm receiving members comparatively cheap because many Vcan be` finished in time@ After the strip'1'4 is in place the lip is bentV down, either by hand or by a suitable tool or machine, to assume the position shownr'in full lines in Fig. 2, and shown more fully in Fig. 4. When so bent, the lip v engages the strip 14 at the edge of the slit f y 18, andthe opposed faces that thus embrace the faces of the strip do notV cut or tear the strip, but there is suiiicient pressure to prevent the strip from being bunched or `wrinkled, and in this Way the usual gathering .of the strip in one end of the slot is pre;

vented and the tubular member is alwaysY held substantially parallelA to the bottom .l part of the slit as is not occupied by the fabric, makes a substantially smooth outer surface and the end of the Vlip does not unduly project. Y

VVeclaimz,`Y` Y 1.4 A pin receiving'tab for garments com-l aA very shortV praisingA a strip of fabric, a tubular clip having a slitted ear to receive the strip, and meansfor insuring the engagement of the strip for its entire Width with the edge of thev slit,

.2. A pin receiving tab for garments comprising a clip formed into a loop With an ear extending therefrom, the earhaving a slit therein, a strip of fabric folded in the slit, and alip on the clip and disposed so as to engage the fabric adjacent yto the slit so that the fabricis hunched.

yBfA pin receiving tab for garments comprevented from becoming Y prising a clip formed into a loop With an ear extending'therefrom, the ear having a slit therein, a strip of fabric folded in the slit, and a curved lip with its upper end outwardly bent opposite the slit so that said lip can be bent to engage the fabric to hold it flat at its fold.

4. A pin receiving tab having a clip thereon, the clip being formed into a long loop with an ear extending therefrom, the ear having a slit parallel with the loop, and a lip bent'outwardly from the juncture of the loop and the ear, in combination with a strip of fabric folded in the slit, the lip beingV bent down to holdrthe strip of fabric straight inthe slit for its entire Width.

In testimony that We claim the foregoing, w'e have hereto set our hands, this 13th day Y of February, 1920. Y

HERMAN MERKEL. JACOB BUEGHER 

